Arsenal acquires Applied Adhesives from Goldner Hawn
Goldner Hawn has sold Applied Products, a manufacturer and distributor of adhesive products and thermal product solutions in North America, to Arsenal Capital Partners. Applied Adhesives is a comprehensive provider of adhesive solutions for the packaging, paper converting, graphic arts, bottle labelling, product assembly, and woodworking industries. Since Goldner Hawn partnered with Applied Adhesives in […]
NatWest to cut UK government stake with $1.5 billion buyback
NatWest will buy back 1.1 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) of its shares from the British government, edging the state-backed lender further towards private hands as the government pushes to fully sell off banks bailed out in the financial crisis. The sale crystallises a further loss of around 1.8 billion pounds for the government on its […]
2020 was a record year for investment and M&A activity for impact technology companies, according to a report by GB Bullhound, a technology advisory and investment firm.
Data in the report ‘Impact investing and the rise of sustainable tech’ shows that impact technology companies are receiving a fast-increasing amount of private equity investment. As the sector matures, those raises are becoming larger and focused on later-stage companies GP Bullhound analysed more than 10,000 fundraiser transactions and 3,000 M&A transactions, starting in 2015, […]
Eurazeo enters into exclusivity agreement with view to acquiring Groupe Premium
Eurazeo, via its Eurazeo PME subsidiary, has signed an exclusivity agreement under which it would invest, as a majority shareholder, alongside Groupe Premium’s current shareholders – Montefiore Investment, Groupe Premium’s management including Olivier Farouz, Laurent and Didier Zerbib, Benoît Jauvert and other key executives, together with independent agent partners The transaction would value Groupe Premium […]
Currencies Direct completes USD165 million dividend recapitalisation
Currencies Direct, a specialist in digital foreign exchange (FX) and international payment services to high value private clients and SMEs, has completed a GBP165 million dividend recapitalisation Currencies Direct is a portfolio company of Palamon Capital Partners (Palamon), a pan-European growth investor, and Corsair, a global specialist investment firm focused on financial and business services […]
Fulfilment solution Cubyn raises EUR35m to expand in France and across Europe
On-demand fulfilment start-up Cubyn has raised EUR35 million in a funding round led by Eurazeo and Bpifrance Large Venture, with new participation from First Bridge Ventures and Fuse Venture Partners, and follow-on funding from DN Capital, 360 Capital, Bpifrance Smart Cities fund and BNPP Développement Cubyn will use its new funding to double its team […]
Humatica advises Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on investment in Lucid Group
Humatica, a private equity specialist adviser for portfolio organisational effectiveness, has advised private equity firm Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on its investment in Lucid Group Founded in 2007, Lucid Group is a strategic healthcare communications company committed to advancing patient health outcomes through healthcare communications that improve the way patients and diseases are managed, and […]
Mainspring and Aspida launch USD550m Guernsey-domiciled private investment fund
Mainspring Fund Services and Aspida Group have partnered to provide Guernsey-domiciled private equity and venture capital funds with a comprehensive solution for fund administration, compliance, governance and reporting At the same time, the partner firms confirmed their very first launch – a USD550m Private Investor Fund. The Guernsey-domiciled Fund, which has completed its first close, […]
Carve-out deals by tech firms ‘just tip of the iceberg’: Carlyle Japan chief
Recent carve-out deals by tech giants such as Hitachi Ltd are just the beginning of potential divestitures of non-core assets by Japanese firms, U.S. buyout firm Carlyle Group’s Japan chief said. The comments come as Carlyle recently successfully exited one of its own investments and sees plenty of opportunities for private equity firms in the […]
News Corp inks Australia Facebook deal, signalling truce after blackout
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp reached a content-supply deal with Facebook Inc in Australia, a step toward settling a dispute that saw the social media giant briefly shut down thousands of pages in the country, which makes News Corp the first major media outlet to strike a Facebook deal under controversial new laws that let an […]
